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London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘page-turning’ new bookThe Week Recommends Investigation into the mysterious death of a teenage boy shines a light on the capital’s ‘sinister, exploitative, money-driven underbelly’
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Clean energy generation dominated 2025: The Week's Good NewsGood News Plus: a jaguar emerges from a Honduran cloud forest in the first spotting of this rare creature in exactly a decade
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The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living: a ‘richly’ detailed bookThe Week Recommends Katherine Harvey’s fascinating history of health in the Middle Ages
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Jan Morris: A Life – an ‘enthralling’ biographyThe Week Recommends Sara Wheeler paints a ‘masterly’ portrait of the complex trans pioneer
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David Szalay: Booker Prize winner not open about the origins of his novel’s plotIn the Spotlight Startling similarities have emerged between author’s novel Flesh and Stanley Kubrick’s film Barry Lyndon – but the writer is playing down the parallels
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What to see and do at Hay FestivalThe Week Recommends This year’s line-up is as enticing as ever, with Ian McEwan, Maggie O'Farrell, Bernardine Evaristo, Val McDermid – and more
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Enough Said: latest volume of Alan Bennett’s ‘punctiliously kept’ diariesThe Week Recommends The 91-year-old ponders mortality and loss in his fourth instalment
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Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! – Liza Minnelli’s ‘enthralling’ memoirThe Week Recommends The actor charts her highs and lows in ‘heartrending’ and hilarious book
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Will Self picks his favourite booksThe Week Recommends Author shares works by Martin Heidegger, François-René de Chateaubriand and Norman Lewis
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Literary festivals around the UKThe Week Recommends These must-visit events are packed with fascinating talks, readings and masterclasses
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Shy Girl and the ‘uncertain new era’ of AI booksUnder the Radar Hachette drops horror novel after claims that artificial intelligence was used to write much of it
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Ed Davey picks his favourite booksThe Week Recommends The politician shares works by George Eliot, Ian McEwan and Umberto Eco
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